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Liminganlahden Luontokeskus
Liminganlahden Luontokeskus is a nature centre 6km west of Liminka village. As well as the display explaining the birdlife, migrations and flora, there’s an observation tower, cafe and information desk. A guide is in attendance and you can rent binoculars to use at one of the many
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Sara Hildénin taidemuseo
The Särkänniemi amusement park contains the Sara Hildén art museum, which has a collection of international and Finnish modern art and sculpture amassed by Sara Hildén, a local businessperson and art collector. The space is normally devoted to excellent exhibitions showcasing parti
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Museo Militaria
There are numerous museums devoted to Finnish involvement in WWII, but this takes the cake. It’s huge. There are three floors packed with war memorabilia, including good information in English on the beginnings of the Winter War. Outside, and in a separate hall, is a collection of
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Lottamuseo
This striking blue building commemorates the Lotta women’s voluntary defence force. Named for a character in a JL Runeberg poem, these unarmed women took on military service during WWII to become one of the world’s largest auxiliaries. Look out for the blue-and-white swastika and r
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Verla Mill Museum
Entry to the Verla Mill Museum is by guided tour (English available), and you can bring a picnic to have in the gardens or by one of the nearby lakes. Otherwise, there’s a cafe and restaurant here too. To get there, head just north of Heinola to the Kouvola turn-off, and follow tha
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Santa Claus Village
Built right on top of the Arctic Circle marker is the ‘official’ Santa Claus Village . There’s a mixture of humdrum souvenir stands and classier shops, and it’s just about the best spot to buy Sámi handicrafts. Tour groups have great fun crossing the line painted on the asphalt in
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Lahden Urheilukeskus
At Lahti’s Sports Centre, a 10-minute walk west of town, things are dominated by three imposing ski jumps, the biggest standing 73m high and stretching 116m. You’ll often see high-level jumpers training in summer. There’s a whole complex here, including the football stadium, a summ
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Luonnontieteellinen Museo
The city’s natural history museum is known for its controversial weathervane of a sperm impregnating an ovum. Modern exhibitions like Story of the Bones, which puts skeletons in an evolutionary context, bring new life to the University of Helsinki’s extensive collection of mammals,
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Senaatintori
From the market square walk up the cobbled Sofiankatu to Senaatintori, Helsinkis majestic central square. Surrounded by early 19th-century buildings, the square was modelled after St Petersburgs.CL Engels stately Tuomiokirkko, finished in 1852, is the Senate Squares most prominent
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Kuhmon Talvisotamuseo
By Hotelli Kalevala, this Winter War museum covers that bitter conflict in the Kuhmo area, mostly through maps and excellent photographs (descriptions available in English). The Finns were very successful on this front, inflicting enormous casualties on Russian divisions in frighte
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Gem Museum
Jewel Village , on the Lappeenranta–Vaalimaa road (Rd 387), has a gem museum which has a collection of spectrolite and precious minerals and fossils, many in their raw, uncut state. Many of the gemstones are backlit to stunning effect, while others provide their own fluorescence. T
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Koilliskaira
At Tankavaara is this nature centre with advice on activities and trekking in Urho Kekkonen National Park. It has good exhibitions on the local environment, including a display on raptors upstairs, as well as a half-hour audiovisual, an internet terminal, a shop and a selection of
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Tuupalan Museo
This house-museum consists of various traditional Karelian red-painted wooden farm buildings that have been fitted out to depict traditional Kuhmo life at the turn of the 20th century for wealthy families and their servants. It’s a gentle, charming display of everyday objects from
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Muumilaakso
Explore the creation of Tove Jansson’s enduringly popular Moomins in this atmospheric museum in the basement of the art gallery, Tampereen taidemuseo. It contains original drawings and beautiful dioramas depicting scenes from these quirky stories (English explanations available). I
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Hermanni Wine Tower
Blackcurrants, crowberries and white currants from the fields and bogs around Ilomantsi are blended by Hermanni Winery – Finlands oldest, established in 1989. At the top of the local water tower, you can sample its local berry wines and liqueurs by the glass or tasting tray (€12 fo
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Tuusulan Rantatie
This stretch of lakeside road was home to many heroes of the National Romantic movement, including Sibelius, Nobel Prize–winning novelist FE Sillanpää and painter Pekka Halonen. Along the 9km road between Tuusula and Järvenpää – after the Hotelli Krapi detour down the smaller diver
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Porvoo Historical Museum
Porvoo Historical Museum is in two adjacent buildings on the beautiful cobbled Old Town Hall Square. The more interesting of the two is the Art Museum , with paintings by Albert Edelfelt and sculptures by Ville Vallgren, two of Porvoo’s celebrated artists. Porvoo Historical Museum
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Maretarium
Kotkas modern Maretarium has over 20 giant fish tanks representing various bodies of water. The Baltic tank is the largest, with local sea life fed regularly by a diver (check the online calendar for weekly feeding times). Water is piped in from the sea to maintain the natural life
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Haltia
Nuuksio National Parks gateway is Haltia, an atmospheric modern visitor centre in the shape of a nesting duck. Inside, the exhibitions bring you the sights and sounds of the Finnish landscape and are backed up by interactive information screens. At its heart is an offbeat installat
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Ålands Jakt och Fiskemuseum
By the harbour is Ålands Jakt och Fiskemuseum, with ghoulish stuffed wildlife and gun-toting photographs.If you prefer your animals alive, just outside the museum is Viltsafari , a fenced-in nature park where you can get up close to Finnish fauna like red and fallow deer, swans and
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